Shelby County, like the rest of Ohio, with its fertile soil, vast unbroken rivers and plentiful game, was an inviting area for settlement by early pioneers who found it to be a very promising and rich state. 

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LOCAL HISTORY
1669 to1769/First Exploration
1669 to 1769/Pickawillany
1769 to 1782
1783 to 1800
Why Shelby County, Ohio?
County Boundary Changes
Swamplands
War of 1812
Hardin

FIRST SETTLERS IN SHELBY COUNTY
1805/Thatcher
1806/Cannon, Earl, Mellinger
1807/John Wilson
1808/Jackson, Marshall
1809/Berry, Phillips, Valentine
1810/Carey, McClure
1811/Lenox
1814 - 1820/Henry, Houston
1820 & 1824/Dr. Pratt, Dr. Fielding
1820s/Fergus, Roberts
The Type of People who Settled Here
PIONEER LIFESTYLE
Clothing
Cooking & Food
Communication
Education
Household Furnishings
Medicine
Tools
Religion
Leisure
Transportation		 READINGS
Recollections of an Old Man in 1896
A Pioneer Moves Near Anna in 1833
The Pioneers of Western Ohio
Mail Delivery in the 1800s
Eating in the Wilds
Neighbors Helped Each Other Learn the Ways of the Land

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LINKS

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